To me happiness is so many different things on so many different levels.
What's made me happy today? Well the list is quite long!!! Hugs from the Bear, smooches from our kitty cat, the sun shining on my washing, the smell of dinner cooking, the sounds of my friends laughing while I'm chatting with them on the phone.....
Lots of small, seemingly insignificant things that I think we all can take for granted.
There's so much in my life to be happy about, so I consider myself extremely fortunate :)
The best thing I have done to make someone else happy?? I paid for my mum to come with me and my daughter on a trip to Disneyland in California. My parents had been doing it tough for some time as their business had been affected by the floods, so this was something that I didn't think twice about, I just offered....
The look on the Bear's face when she found out back on Christmas Day that we were going to Disneyland was so incredible and made me so happy (and her) that we both cried!!
Let's see what else makes me happy?? Getting 50% off a designer handbag that I was admiring...Going back to the same store 2 weeks later and still getting the same discount on another handbag (naughty I know!!)...Getting $50 off my car service for being a new customer...Getting to see my brother awarded as Coach of the Year for basketball after his tireless efforts all season...
Helping out whenever I can at the Bear's school (also helps with the working mother guilt, but that's a whole other blog post!!)....
Watching the dolphins play in the ocean right in front of us....The fact that we live right at the beach and are so lucky that we can go pretty much all year round....Helping out my friends and family with whatever I can....The Bear's laugh from my tickles makes me happy......Reading a good book.....Having a hot bubble bath.....Enjoying a glass of wine at the end of the week....Cooking a meal (or just treats!) for my friends and family....Getting another Owl for my collection.....
There are so many things that make me happy - I would love to hear from you to find out what makes you happy!!! Feel free to comment and share your happy thoughts...
Until next time - Beware of Bears in Cupboards!! xx
Friday 21 October 2011
Tuesday 4 October 2011
The Power of Friends
I am lucky. Incredibly lucky. I have such a wonderful group of friends, who over the years have come into my life and I've been lucky enough to keep them - or them to keep me!! lol ;)
All of these friends are in their own ways very different people, but all love me for me (i think!), even though I am the first to admit that I must not always be an easy friend to have....
I have tried to pass this gift of friendship onto The Bear, and to show her that you don't have to try and be someone you are not to have your friends be true to you and accept you for who you are. I have also tried to explain to her that it's not always important to be the most popular or to have the most friends, but it is the ones that you do have who would do anything for you (and you for them) that you should really hold on to.
I have a lovely fridge magnet that says "I don't need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of"...This is so true....
My reason behind this particular blog is that a friend of mine recently lost someone they know to suicide. We got to discussing how we couldn't imagine being in that situation, which made me even more grateful for my friends.
Thankfully I have never been in a situation so bad or had a time in my life where I felt I had to end it all. I would also like to think that maybe, just maybe, I have been a good enough friend to have made someone perhaps rethink their situation and realise that even though they might think no-one cares or is there, that there definitely is....
I certainly didn't post this to be morbid or depressing either, in fact I posted this so that if any of us think any of our friends (or children even for that matter) are feeling like this, we can reach out to them and let them know someone, somewhere is watching over them...
Until next time - Beware of Bears in Cupboards
All of these friends are in their own ways very different people, but all love me for me (i think!), even though I am the first to admit that I must not always be an easy friend to have....
I have tried to pass this gift of friendship onto The Bear, and to show her that you don't have to try and be someone you are not to have your friends be true to you and accept you for who you are. I have also tried to explain to her that it's not always important to be the most popular or to have the most friends, but it is the ones that you do have who would do anything for you (and you for them) that you should really hold on to.
I have a lovely fridge magnet that says "I don't need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of"...This is so true....
My reason behind this particular blog is that a friend of mine recently lost someone they know to suicide. We got to discussing how we couldn't imagine being in that situation, which made me even more grateful for my friends.
Thankfully I have never been in a situation so bad or had a time in my life where I felt I had to end it all. I would also like to think that maybe, just maybe, I have been a good enough friend to have made someone perhaps rethink their situation and realise that even though they might think no-one cares or is there, that there definitely is....
I certainly didn't post this to be morbid or depressing either, in fact I posted this so that if any of us think any of our friends (or children even for that matter) are feeling like this, we can reach out to them and let them know someone, somewhere is watching over them...
Until next time - Beware of Bears in Cupboards
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